a non-profit literary journal created by three veterans who served together in Afghanistan

Christopher Lyke

Matt Marcus

Ryan Quinn

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creative writing of U.S. military members, veterans, and their immediate families

only for current and past service members of the U.S. Armed Forces (Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard), and their immediate family members (parents, siblings, children)

there are cash prizes for our annual Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Awards

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BIO: Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon, and her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – MFA

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss living and working in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read her latest work in The Disappointed Housewife, Subnivean, The Woolf, and forthcoming in Across the Margin and The Vincent Brothers Review. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Basic – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an award-winning and anthologized American-Swiss writer who lives in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her long-form fiction in publications including As You Were, Collateral, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Litbreak Magazine, Longleaf Review, Subnivean, New World Writing, and upstreet. Her flash fiction has appeared in publications including The Woolf, The Disappointed Housewife, Bandit Fiction, Fiction Kitchen Berlin, Flash Boulevard, Fudoki Magazine, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, Lunate, Reflex Fiction, and Orca Lit. Her monthly musings about life and her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – including pubs

Meredith Wadley is an American-Swiss who lives and works in a medieval micro town on the Rhine River. Her writing has been anthologized and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find her short stories in a variety of publications, including As You Were: The Military Review, Five on the Fifth, Line of Advance, Longleaf Review, New World Writing, Subnivean, and upstreet. Her flash fiction appears in Bandit Fiction, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Lammergeier, and Orca Lit. She’s at work on a collection of short stories, a collection of flash fiction, and a campus novel involving misogyny and plagiarism. Her monthly musings about life and writing plus her publication links appear on her website, www.meredithwadley.com. On social media, find her at BlueSky: @meredithwadley, Twitter: @meredithwadley. Instagram: @meredithkaisi.

Long – at work on . . . 

Her daddy’s storytelling always began with the same question and took Janey swimming in irrigation canals, stealing watermelons out of a farmer’s field, shuffling along a dusty road to the West Texas town of Ystleta, or galloping Smokey . . . 

Departure

We were a military family, so the logistics of Dad getting into ranching didn’t figure. Engineer, pilot, and instructor during that Denver stint in 1973, could he be ready to go civilian? Settle us in one place? Finally?

Crossing the Great Divide

“Bitte schön,” the gallerist said. The room’s parsimony amplified her soft voice, and she added that this hour was her favorite in the gallery; the evening light. She moved to the front of the table and half-sat upon it. 

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